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Silverman emphasized the fact that the U.N. Council is "a non-partisan organization" but added that Menshikov's appearance would be "beneficial" to the student body. "The Harvard community will have an opportunity to hear and question the Soviet ambassador first-hand...
...particular sense, the menacing Russian advance was no surprise to Edward Teller, 49, the rumpled, shaggy-browed, Hungarian-born nuclear physicist, the "father of the H-bomb" and now associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. Teller was uniquely endowed by his scientific talents, a first-hand familiarity with Middle European tyranny and his deep affection for his adopted U.S. to see what most of his fellow countrymen could not see. Of all the U.S. scientists on campus, in government, in industry, Teller worked hardest and most belligerently to send the warning that the Russians were...
...week column for the New York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Joseph and Stewart Alsop decided to try a "new and frankly experimental" division of effort. While Family Man Stewart, 43, stayed home in Washington to file two columns a week from Capitol Hill, Bachelor Joe, 46, decided to give readers first-hand coverage of events in Europe and the Middle East. Last week, after six months of steady travel in which he broke the news (after an interview with Khrushchev) of the Soviet Union's sweeping industrial reorganization, covered the Jordan crisis, traced the growing rift between King Saud...
...York Times featured a two-installment report on a survey of undergraduate campuses (mostly in the East) which claimed to discover a "widespread and deep interest in religion" and a "searching for answers" among these students. This survey was based on interviews with deans, professors, students, and on first-hand observation of students as well as on the consultation of statistics about chapel attendance and courses in religion...
...replica coffee house is not a first-hand idea, admittedly, but comes to Cambridge via lower Manhattan; it is tied up, as Continentalism is, with the limping bohemianism that survives here and elsewhere...